West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-02
HAMPERS FERRY LETTER.
November oath. 1887.


Mr.. EpIroR.-Your readers must
he easy on us this week. Wenever
DID give them any thing worth the
time spent in perusing our inanities,
but. this time. our natural hebetude
is aggravated by bad cold. BY
the way we so frequently hear of
people having bad colds that We are
led to infer that some are fortunate
enough to contract GOOD ones, but
we have never met such, and il the
catarrh we have at present in any
way resembles the latter may God
help those who are afflicted with the
former. We were always candid
enough to admit-indeed it would
be useless for us to deny-that
there was a bee of considerable size
and great activity in our 6onnet.but
we have NOW whole hive in our
head, and they make more fuss in
minute than you could hear in
long summers day in Bill Ander-
sons famous apiary. We suppose
they are feeding on the flowers of
imagination which spring up spon'
taneOusly ana with such amazing
luxuriance in our added brain, and
the worst of it is that they have
eaten them all up or sucked them
dry, which it is hoped will palliate
our dizziness this week. 1t is said
that there are two things which can
not be concealed-love and an incli
nation to sneeze. This NAV be true
Of both, but we are certain that it is
so of the latter, for all of last week,
in spite of our efforts to the contra
ry, we kept our neighbors and the
very echoes of the place awake and
drowned even the dynamite blasts
with the terrific explosions in our
Schniederian membrane-that is,we
believe, the name Of it.
1t is Thanksgiving Day, and
though we are not as grateful to
Providence as we ought to be, we
try to come as near to being so as
the frailties of humanity will per-
nit. We are thankful that at al
most three score years we can dust
it up Camp Hill like lamp-lighter
that We can see the point OF a
cambria needle five yards of, and
that of joke at ANY distance. Our
hearing too is excellent-indeed
many people think our ears to be the
most marked feature we have-and
we are blessed with the happy fac
ulty attributed in Ireland to the
family of the French Marshal Nc
Mahoil-that Of hearing only what
is pleasant. Then, again, poor as
We may be, our vote balances that
of millionaire, and we can express
ourselves freely without fear of Co
ercion laws. May God bless the
men who fought for and achieved
this large measure of liberty for us
and all who choose to avail them
selves of it, and il there is any one
on American soil to-day who is dis
satisfied with the noble legacy left
to him by the heroes of '76, let him,
if foreigner, return to the country
he left, and, if he is an American,
let him try for few years resi-
dence on the other side of the her
ring pond and be certain that he
will return fully cured of his within.
Finally, we are thankful that, what
ever other faults our countrymen
have, there is not among them as far
as we know or have heard one An
archist or organ grinder.
But in the whole land of thanks
giving people there is not to-day a
man who ought to be more grateful
than William NJ. Graham, formerly
of this place, but now of Hartford,
Connecticut, for. yesterday, he we'd
ded his hearts first love. the very
flower of Virginia's fair daughters,
Gentle Aunie" Baden. of Bolivar.
We have styled her after the heroine
of fine old love-song, and never
was an epithet more appropriate
than that of gentle" to the fair
bride of yesterday. Every one who
knows her will add the equally mer-
tied ones of ''lovely" and "beloyed. .
for she was the great favorite of old
and young-an ornament to the So
cietv of the place and, better still, a
ministering angel to the poor and
the afflicted. And SHE, too, may
we'll feel happy, for her partner in
| life is fine, manly fellow, both in